Re: What is ignorance?
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Originally Posted by Savorgnan
Knowledge is a felix culpa, to take Saint Augustine of Hippo's words. So ignorance has to be the contrary, a sort of "unfortunate right".
It seems that many peoples are (ab)using this "right".
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But isn't it plausible that Saint Augustine didn't really consider the step from knowledge to ignorance possible or even desirable?
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While the rest of mankind seeks for the sake of finding and of knowing, the Westerner of today seeks for the sake of seeking; the Gospel saying, 'Seek and ye shall find,' is a dead letter for him, in the full force of this phrase, since he calls 'death' anything and everything that constitutes a definite finality, just as he gives the name 'life' to what is no more than fruitless agitation.
René Guénon, East and West
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